Nancy Astor Quotes
Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
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I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.
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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
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My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
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If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.
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I like boring golf. That's kind of what butters my bread.
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People will always want a free lunch.
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For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.
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It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.
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When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
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'All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' 'I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman; 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.'
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The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily’s spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.
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I was born a Hindu because I had no control over this, but I shall not die a Hindu.
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I don't know if I want to be a big star though.
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For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
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I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
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Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
